The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-14
CONCERNING WOMEN.

/ The w. c. T. q. of Cincinnati have opened
| coffee-house.
| Feb. 10 will be Susan B. Anthony's sixty-sev
| enth birthday.
| The next annual meeting of the National w.
| G. T. Q. will be held in Nashville Tenn.
! Miss Emily s. Bouton, of the Blade. is vice
| president of the Toledo (Ohio) Press Club.
Mrs z. G. Wallace has been engaged to lect-
ure throughout the month of May in New York.
and will spend June IN Vermont.
In the Kansas House of Representatives one
enrolling clerk, assistant docket clerk and
the postmistress are women, and two of the
pages are girls.
The New England Women's Press Association
has petitioned the Massachusetts Legislature for
a measure to require the appointment of police
matrons in cities.
Mrs Lucy s. Barber, who was arrested for
voting the State and congressional ticket at the
recent New York election, has been discharged
from arrest by United States Commissioner
Angel The Commissioner held that the matter
was not within the jurisdiction of the federal
court
At the school at Santa Fe. N. NJ, called
Ramona in memory of Helen Hunt Jackson
twenty five bright Indian girls are gaining
practical education. The government supplies
everythine-food, clothing ETC.. but the salaries
OF the teachers are paid by the American Mis-
sionary Society.
| DIR. Mary Weeks Burnett. of Chicago pres-
| dent of the National Temperance Hospital, and
/ editor of the Journal of Heredity, has been
elected member of the Medico-Legal Society
| of New York. which has in its membership
many of the most distinguished names in law
and medicine in this country and Europe.
Mary T. Hill Willard, mother of Frances E.
! Willard, has reached her eighty year in
| full possession 81 all her faculties, and is the
comforter and helper of her distinguished daugh-
ter. Madam Willard began teaching school at
the age of fifteen, and taught eleven summers
and eight winters attending school between
times. She was one of the class formed at Obar-
| lin College of the wives of the married men at
tending, under the instruction of Mrs. Finney,
and books still her delight and daily papers
her recreation.
| Mrs. Mary A Leavitt, of Vernon Ind, we'll
/ known in temperance circles. is direct de-
| scendant Of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins,
the story of whose courtsnip and marriage Long
| fellow has immortaliZed Elizabeth Alden,
| daughter OF john and Priscilla, who is said to
have been the first girl born after the landing of
| the Pilgrims, married William Pabody in l645,
/ and the family record is traced through five
| generations to DR.. Egan F. Pabody, the father
| of Mrs. Leavitt DR.. Peabody among the
| early Abolitionists OF Indiana, and organized
| the first temperance society in Jennings county.
The Protective Agency for Women and Chill
dren, organized in Chicago last April. has inves
| tigated about hundred complaints Oh
| these, twentysx were for wages due and money
unlawfuly withheld from complainant, aggre
eating $624.G0 Half of this found
worthless. the rest collected or is in process
| of collection. Ten cases were of criminal as
| sault, three of basta-dy, five for false imprison
ment. fourteen of delinquent husbands Other
cases were of injustice in probate courts, girls
enticed from home for immoral purposes. loss OF
| money through dishonest agents or friends etc.
The agency reports that it can find no legal rem
edy where the husband and father fails to pro
vide for his family, and that in cases of crime
against women its efforts are crippled by the
disposition of police Justices to regard such
crimes venial ofenses, and to dismiss cases
tences.